Praised for portraying "ordinary people and small moments", his work appeared internationally in publications such as Time and Der Spiegel and was included in the 1955 exhibition The Family of Man; particularly notable are his photographs taken during the North Sea Flood of 1953.
[1] Tall and blond, on occasion he dyed his hair black and, disguised as a female nurse,[2] took photographs of Amsterdam documenting the German occupation.
With Austria and others he founded the press agency Particam (derived from Partizanen Camera) and documented the post-war reconstruction,[1] as well as the devastation caused in Zeeland by the North Sea Flood of 1953, which killed over 1800 people in the Netherlands.
In 1968 he returned to his country and settled in Bentveld and worked for the studios of Harry Pot and George van de Wijngaard.
For a while he lived in Wormerveer and De Wormer and, from 1971 to 1978, he worked in Cruquius, for the Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeverijen, overseeing set design.